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phenethyl formate

floral ester

Found in 8 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis structure of phenethyl formate
2D Lewis Structure
Formula
C9H10O2
Molecular weight
150.17 g/mol
PubChem CID
7711 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description
rose green hyacinth watercress herbal
Odor threshold
270.0 ppb
Volatility
medium
CAS number
104-62-1
Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number
2864
GRAS publication
GRAS 3
FEMA primary name
PHENETHYL FORMATE

Use-level matrix not extracted for this substance — check the source publication for current ppm guidance.

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

How this molecule is described

Sources disagree about odour more often than they disagree about chemistry. Rather than show one answer, here is every description on file with how many ingredient records carry it.

Descriptions on file

Ordered by how many independent descriptor streams give each wording, then by how often it appears. The bar is still replication — one source copied onto many ingredients scores high there — so the two can disagree.

rose green hyacinth watercress herbal shown above FlavorDB 2.0, Flavordb Odor Column 2 sources agree
7
floral and fruity FlavorDB 2.0
1

Bars are the share of ingredient records carrying each description. High agreement means the sources replicate each other — not necessarily that they are right.

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain phenethyl formate. Ingredients with a measured concentration come first, ranked by odour activity; the rest follow by how large a share of that ingredient's profile this molecule is. The figure beside each is how many different compounds that ingredient has in total — not the concentration of phenethyl formate in it.

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